We here at Scanner love beards. If we could grow our own, we'd probably just sit around the apartment all day trying to have sex with ourselves. But we can't (grow our own beard, that is) so instead we spend lots of time drooling over bearded men. And we were recently made aware of a website that encourages everyday dudes to grow really big beards just for the hell of it.
From Whiskerino:
Beards used to be glorified as signs of virility and manliness. A man that couldn't grow a strong beard was privately ridiculed. Some societies would only allow males to grow beards once they were married, thus denoting a sign of stature and respect in the community. To be shaved was to be emasculated.
In early America, men that could not grow facial hair were demeaned less advanced and uncivilized. Now we have come full circle where our own society promotes this emasculated version of maleness. Where to be a man is to be clean-shaved; to be respectable is not to have a beard.
Let us return to our roots! Let us return to true masculinity! Let us cry out with one voice:
"I WILL HAVE A BEARD!! I WILL BE A MAN!! I WILL NOT CONFORM TO YOUR RULES!"
Basically, men grow beards and then upload pictures of their hot, bearded selves. This is better than porn.
Except, here's the problem: it's down or out or... whatever. Whiskerino won't be back until 2009. At least we have the archives. But if Whiskerino would like a cheerleader, please, pretty please, call us.
[Whiskerino]
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